The phraseoriginates from a Chinesefantasydrama "The journey of Flower" or "Hua Qian Gu", anditsEnglishtranslationfirstappearedon the subtitlesofCCTVnewschannel.
The first thing I bought when I was asked to follow the Millennium Centre's foundation stone onitsjourney to Cardiff was a packet of sea-sickness tablets.